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Taming the Incumbency Advantage: Innovative Constitutional Designs from the ‘South'

This Discussion Paper was drafted for an International IDEA webinar on Taming the Incumbency Advantage ...

(S)electing Constitution-Making Bodies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

By Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher and Sumit Bisarya

Constitution-building processes are increasingly seen as critical elements within both peacebuilding and state-building processes. A constitution-building ...

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Constitution Building in Asia: the tipping point for democratization?

By Vidar Helgesen

Two important constitution-building processes currently underway in Asia are reaching a tipping point. The Nepali people ...

Constitution Building Processes and Democratization

By Yash Ghai and Guido Galli

In recent decades there has been considerable activity in the making or revision of constitutions.i ...

Constitutional Design for Territorially Divided Societies

By Tom Ginsburg

Territorial divisions come in many forms. They occur in both federal and unitary states, and ...

Constitutional Negotiations: Dynamics, Deadlocks and Solutions

By Sumit Bisarya and Thibaut Noel

Countries often amend their constitutions or enact new ones following major political events, such as ...

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Constitutional Performance Assessment in the Time of a Pandemic: The 1987 Constitution and the Philippines' COVID-19 Response

The Constitutional Performance Assessment of the 1987 Philippine Constitution concluded that most of the technical requirements of ...

Constitutional Reform in Indonesia: A Retrospective

By Andrew Ellis

The constitution of any country defines the institutions by which that country governs itself, and indeed the ...

Election Provisions in Constitutions

This is Briefing Paper 48 issued by the DRI in April 2014, titled "Election Provisions ...

Environmental Rights, Protection and Management in Tanzania - Justification for their Inclusion in the Would-Be New Constitution

By E. S. Massawe

This paper seeks to provoke discussion and provide input into the initiatives to enact a ...

Forms and Reforms of Constitution-Making With Reference to Tanzania

By Daudi R. Mukangara

This is the UTAFITI [New Series) Special Issue, Vol. 4, 1998-2001: 131-150, written by Daudi R. Mukangara ...

Interim Constitutions: Peacekeeping and Democracy-Building Tools

By Kimana Zulueta-Fulscher

An interim constitution should serve as a bridge during a transition from one constitutional order ...

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Interim Governance Arrangements in Post-Conflict and Fragile Settings

Interim governance arrangements are an institutional framework established to create a ‘bridge’ from a situation ...

Interim Governance Arrangements: Comparative Principles and Practice for Myanmar

By Christine Bell

The background to this brief is the context of the military coup in Myanmar in ...

Lier L’ancien et le nouvel ordre Constitutionnel: le role des dispositions transitoires dans les constitutions

By Democracy International

This paper lookis at the role interim constitutional provisions play in the transitional period between ...

Making Presidentialism Work: Sharing and Learning from Global Experience

By Andrew Ellis, Kirsti Samuels

The question in the real world is most often not "should we choose a parliamentary or ...

Moroccan Exceptionalism Examined: Constitutional Insights pre- and post-2011

By PhD Mohammed Hashas

This is a working paper No. 13/34 issued by the Institute of International Affairs (Istituto ...

Moving Beyond Transitions to Transformation: Interactions Between Transitional Justice and Constitution-Building

By Amanda Cats-Baril

The increased prevalence of political transitions following internal conflict has seen heightened attention given to ...

Negotiating Libya’s Constitution

By Karim Mezran, Duncan Pickard

Libya’s future as a democracy hinges on the constitution-drafting process and the ability of the ...

Negotiating Libya’s Constitution

By Karim Mezran, Duncan Pickard

Libya’s future as a democracy hinges on the constitution-drafting process and the ability of the ...

On the Virtues of Inconclusiveness: The Egyptian Constitution of 2014

By Gianluca Paolo Parolin

This is an opinion piece written by Gianluca Paolo Parolin and published by the GMF ...

Political Party Finance Regulation: Constitutional reform after the Arab Spring

By Sujit Choudhry, Katherine Glenn Bass, Jennifer Ebling, Christine Ernst, Lisandra Fernández, Alex Kerchner, Akiva Miller, Marzieh Tofighi Darian

In support of constitution-building activities in the MENA region (e.g. in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen); ...

Presidentialism vs. Parliamentarism in Turkey

By Ergun Özbudun

This is Policy Brief No. 01, issued by the Institute of International Affairs in Rome. ...

Promoting Consensus: Constitution-Making in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya

The paper issued by the DRI in Nov 2011, argues that the three most progressed ...

Public Consultation on a Draft Constitution: With Particular Reference to Women in Nepal

By Cecilia Bylesjö, Jill Cottrell

This paper is directed at the non-specialist member of the public who has the opportunity to comment ...

Secession: Constitution Brief

By Tom Ginsburg

From Spain to Tanzania to Ukraine, the idea of secession is a critical issue for ...

Security Sector Reform in Constitutional Transitions

Security sector reform, democratization and constitutional reform are intrinsically linked. The constitution-building process can therefore provide ...

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Sequencing Peace Agreements and Constitutions in the Political Settlement Process

By Christine Bell and Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher

This Policy Paper focuses on issues of sequencing in political settlement processes where there is ...

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Shaping States through Constitutions

By Vidar Helgesen

From Nepal to Bolivia, from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Georgia, constitutions are increasingly becoming hot ...

Shaping the Post-Conflict Landscape? The Role of Constitutions in Natural Resource Governance

By Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher and Christina Murray

Natural resources feature prominently in many political and economic settlement processes after conflict. When these ...

The 2011 Constitutional reform in Morocco: more flaws than merits

By Francesco Biagi

The Institute for European Studies has published the 7th paper of the Jean Monnet Occasional ...

The Constituent Assembly of Nepal: An Agenda for Women

By Jill Cottrell

Nepal is making a new constitution, which will be a culmination of the People's Movement, and ...

The Role of Constituent Assemblies in Constitution Making, Yash Ghai, International IDEA - 2012

What is a constituent assembly? What role does it play in the process of constitution making? How is it established? ...

Tunisia’s Constitutional Process: Hurdles and Prospects

By Duncan Pickard

This is an opinion paper by Duncan Pickard about the Constitutional Process in Tunisia, titled: ...

Ukraine: The Promise and the Risk of Constitutional Reforms

By Democracy Reporting International

This is Briefing Paper by Democracy Reporting International looks at the promise and risks of ...

Yearbook of the Association of Arab Constitutional Law 2015-2016

By International IDEA; AACL

Yearbook of the Association of Arab Constitutional Law 2015-2016 (Arabic) في خضم الأحداث مرت بها المنطقة ...

أحكام الانتخاب في الدستور

By المنظمة الدولية للتقريرعن الديمقراطية

تتضمن هذه الورقة التوجيهية الصادرة عن المنظمة الدولية للتقرير عن الديمقراطية في نيسان/ابريل 2014 والمعنونة ...

القضاء المغربي في ظل الحراك العربي: الاصلاح الدستوري الجديد، الحوار الوطني وحراك القضاة

By عبد العزيز النويضي

المفكرة القانونية تنشر الدراسة التي أعدها الاستاذ عبد العزيز النويضي في أواخر 2012 حول أبرز إنجازات الإصلاح ...

دستور الجزائر: "ثرثار" يتحدث عن حقوق لا يضمنها

By د. ناصر جابي

ضمن سلسلة بدائل السياسات، نشرت مبادرة الإصلاح العربي هذه الورقة التي أعدها الدكتور ناصر جابي، ...

لبنان: دراسات في العدالة الدستورية - الكتاب السنوي السابع للمجلس الدستوري - 2013

By الدكتور عصام سليمان وآخرون

هذه المجموعة من الدراسات الدستورية في مجال القضاء الدستوري كانت قد نشرت ضمن المجلد السابع ...

ورقة نقاش: صياغة مشروع الدستور - تجارب مقارنة ودروس مستفادة

By نرجس طاهر ، دنيا بن رمضان

صدر عن المؤسسة الدولية للديمقراطية والانتخابات في يونيو/حزيران 2013، ورقة نقاش بعنوان: "صياغة مشروع الدستور: ...